A Pakistani citizen was killed as a result of unprovoked firing by Indian forces on civilian population in Kot Kotera sector at the Line of Control, the ISPR said on Tuesday. The military’s media wing said that a civilian, Abdul Rauf, was grazing animals when Indian troops opened fire. On August 18, a 65-year-old man…

The Israeli military dropped leaflets and fired tear gas into Gaza early on Monday, warning Palestinians to stay away from the border with Israel as protesters gathered for the penultimate day of a six-week demonstration. Protests are expected to escalate on Monday, the 70th anniversary of the foundation of Israel and the day the US…

Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa inaugurated the work of iron fencing at Punj Pai border in Baluchistan on Tuesday. According to ISPR, speaking on the occasion, Army Chief said that the border fencing will help prevent the incidents of cross border terrorism. He said Pakistan has rendered unprecedented sacrifices to restore peace in the…

Israel’s army said on Sunday that it had briefly held a Lebanese woman who crossed the border and then repatriated her, a detention Beirut denounced as an abduction. The Lebanese army said that the woman, Nohad Dali, was taken on Saturday evening from Shebaa, a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the…

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again on September 28th…

GAZA: Israeli troops fired warning shots toward Palestinian youths gathered at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, wounding 13 people, health officials said. Tension remained high in the area a day after deadly violence broke out in one of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years. An Israeli military spokesman said he was checking the details…

BEIJING: Taking a strong note of remarks by the Indian army chief about China and the Donglong border area, a Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Monday said the negative remarks by a senior Indian official were against the consensus reached between the heads of the state of two countries and it could not help to preserve…

BEIJING: The official state-run newspaper in northeastern China’s Jilin city, near the border with North Korea, on Wednesday published a page of “common sense” advice on how readers can protect themselves from a nuclear weapons attack or explosion, reported Reuters. China has voiced grave concern over North Korea’s nuclear and missiles programme, as well as…

RAWALPINDI: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor Monday said that Pakistan was paying the price for a security vacuum on Afghan side of the border. In a series of tweets, the DG ISPR talked about Pakistan Army captain and a soldier, who were martyred when terrorists from Afghanistan’s side attempted…

NEWS DESK: Pakistan and India may be two separate countries but we have a common relationship – that of humanity. In one of the greatest goodwill gestures an Indian could extend to her Pakistani counterparts, lawyer Navjyot Kaur Chabba worked day and night to ensure the safe release of a Pakistani woman, her child born in…

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan says Pakistan wants reality based relations with the United States and to work jointly against terrorism. In an interview, he said foreign minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has clearly presented Pakistan’s stance in the United States. He said the US army has failed to restore peace in Afghanistan and now…

SIALKOT: Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday strongly condemned the Indian shelling on Sialkot border villages in which several civilians were killed and some others injured. He was talking to the media after enquiring about the health of injured here at Combined Military Hospital (CMH). Federal Minister for Law Zahid Hamid also accompanied him….

RAWALPINDI: A Pakistan Army soldier was killed in Khyber Agency on Saturday, Samaa reported. According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR),terrorists fired from across the border on newly established Pakistani Border post in Rajgal Valley in Khyber Agency. Twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Arsalan Alam, the officer commanding that post got hit while performing his duties and embraced…

BEIRUT: Convoys of buses arrived on Monday to transfer thousands of Syrian militants and refugees from Lebanon’s border region into rebel territory in Syria in exchange for Hezbollah prisoners. Under a local ceasefire between the Sunni Muslim militants and the Shi’ite Hezbollah, about 9,000 fighters and their relatives were to leave on Monday, a Hezbollah…